Non-ASCII symbols in path variable of Spring MVC application on embedded Tomcat server setup using Spring Boot

Question

I am building a service using Spring MVC set up using Spring Boot where I want to be able to have arbitrary unicode characters in the URLs.

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Answer 1

Following the event of a brain-wave, adding the bean method

@Bean
public EmbeddedServletContainerFactory servletContainer() {
    TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory factory = new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory(8080);
    factory.addConnectorCustomizers(new TomcatConnectorCustomizer() {

        @Override
        public void customize(Connector connector) {
            connector.setURIEncoding("UTF-8");
        }
    });
    return factory;
}

seems to solve the problem.

Edit

The CharacterEncodingFilter is still necessary for converting POST bodies.